Noun: augury
| Singular | augury |
| Plural | auguries |
Sample Sentences
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In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn. [1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe:]
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No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring! [1859, George Meredith, chapter 15, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:]
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Fortunately many of the younger men are keen enough to make a success of their work, and this gives a better augury for the future. [1950 August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 549:]
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Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity. [1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 2, in Well Tackled!:]
Nouns inflected like augury
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From augur + -y, or from Middle English augurie, from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium. See: Middle English Nouns '
augurie', Latin Nouns '
augurium'.